That question popped into my mind yesterday. With the start of PulpFest 2014 less than a week away, I thought it might be a good idea to ponder it. What if...
Category - Pulp History
I had a pleasant chat with pulp uber-collector Dwight Fuhro earlier this week about pulp advertising. He emailed me several advertisements for The Shadow...
Updated: July 24, 2014. As pulp collectors, we mostly focus on the actual product of the whole publishing process: the pulp magazines themselves, the stories...
Scientifiction. It’s not a word that just rolls off your tongue. But that’s the portmanteau that Hugo Gernsback created back in 1926 before science...
One of the focuses of this year’s PulpFest is the 85th anniversary of the science-fiction pulps of 1939. To get you prepared, Mike Chomko has begun a...
It was 65 years ago today that Street & Smith Publications announced that it would shut down its line of pulp magazines. Within months, the final issues...
Looking through old issues of Xenophile makes me wish I had known about the pulp fanzine back in the 1970s. The late Nils Hardin‘s zine ran for 44 issues...
Amazing Stories — the first all-science-fiction pulp magazine — debuted with its April 1926 number. That issue actually would have been hitting...
Do a search for “pulp magazine” in a newspaper archive database and you never know what might turn up. I was doing just that on Tuesday. Though I...
As I’ve mentioned before, I enjoy reading commentary on the pulp magazines from the time the pulps proliferated on the newsstands. And this letter on the...